Losing Young How to Grieve When Your Life is Just Beginning
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RACHEL WILSON is a writer and the founder of The Grief Network, a community run by and for bereaved young people. Her writing has appeared in The Times, the Guardian, the New Statesman and more. She is currently training to become a barrister.
<p>‘It’s well-researched and engagingly written, covering everything from sex after grief, how mourning is approached differently throughout the world and returning to work after loss. A must-read for anyone wanting to understand their own grief better, feel less alone – or even learn more about this important part of life more generally’<br /><strong><em>INDEPENDENT</em></strong></p>
<p>‘Thoughtfully and beautifully written, but most important of all, an incredibly useful take on facing grief as a young person’<br /><strong>CARIAD LLOYD, author of <em>YOU ARE NOT ALONE</em> and host of <em>GRIEFCAST</em></strong></p>
<p>'A brilliantly, brilliantly written exploration of young grief. Endlessly absorbing, it is packed with clarity, curiosity and courage'<br /><strong>FELIX WHITE, guitarist for THE MACCABEES and author of <em>IT'S ALWAYS SUMMER SOMEWHERE</em></strong></p>
<p>‘The truth is, it has turned on so many lights for me that I had to read slowly, carefully and with space to reflect. I've met familiar ideas I didn't know I carried, I've had assumptions challenged and anxieties assuaged. I feel I've attended a masterclass about supporting my bereaved friends, taught by a kind and patient expert speaking with love from the heart of her loss … What a profoundly helpful book’<br /><strong>KATHRYN MANNIX, author of <em>WITH THE END IN MIND</em> AND <em>LISTEN</em></strong></p>
<p>'An important and insightful book about the loneliness of grief and the transformative power of community'<br /><strong>GAVANNDRA HODGE, author of <em>THE CONSEQUENCES OF LOVE</em></strong></p>
<p>‘As an educationalist, I have seen far too many children lose parents and others dear to them. This book is full of wisdom and compassion and will help many far and wide’<br /><strong>ANTHONY SELDON</strong></p>
Rachel Wilson’s mother died when Rachel was in her twenties. It felt like the definitive end of childhood, a loss that rewired her perspective on life, death, relationships and who she was as a person.
In this book, Rachel brings together other stories of bereavement with her own, encountering people who have lost parents, siblings, partners and friends at a young age. Losing Young draws on psychological research, interviews with titans like Julia Samuel and explorations of grief in history: what happens in a time of war or pandemic, when the many grieve – or struggle to – together? How do different cultures process the end of a life differently? How can the grief of losing a parent return in strange form when one thinks about having children? What do TV and fiction get disastrously, unhelpfully wrong?
This is a personal and profound book about what happens when youth is reshaped by tragedy, trauma and loss. It’s for anyone who mourns a lost future, who is struggling to find themselves after grief, or hopes to feel less alone.
• AN INVALUABLE BOOK THAT SPEAKS DIRECTLY TO THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN BEREAVED YOUNG. Rachel’s book will be for readers of Julia Samuel, Cariad Lloyd, Annie Lord and Cathy Rentzenbrink.
• A MOVING, INVOLVING PERSONAL NARRATIVE BOUND TOGETHER WITH PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH.
• FROM THE FOUNDER OF THE GRIEF NETWORK. Rachel’s network connects young people who have been bereaved.
Competition: You are Not Alone;Notes on Heartbreak;Dear Life;War Doctor;Grief Works;Conversations on Love;Language of Kindness;With the End in Mind;Regrets of the Dying. Cariad Lloyd;Kathryn Mannix;Julia Samuel;Rachel Clarke;Natasha Lunn;Christie Watson;Raynor Winn;Annie Lord;Georgina Scull;Philippa Perry
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Om bidragsyterne
RACHEL WILSON is a writer and the founder of The Grief Network, a community run by and for bereaved young people. Her writing has appeared in The Times, the Guardian, the New Statesman and more. She is currently training to become a barrister.